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Jan 5, 2021 · John & Henry Boddington. By 1831, Strangeways Brewery was employing a rather quiet young man named John Boddington as a clerk. He was from down South and had had a rather poor upbringing, being one of 8 children with a father who struggled to earn a decent crust for them.
Apr 19, 2024 · Henry Boddington, born in 1813, rose through the company to become a partner and, in 1853, took out a loan to become its sole owner. The business continued to boom, with 100,000 barrels of beer...
In his autobiographical account Henry Boddington traced the varying fortunes of seven other young men who started out at the same time as himself in the dizzy world of Manchester's headlong expansion.
Boddingtons Brewery was a regional brewery in Manchester, England, which owned pubs throughout the North West. Boddingtons was best known for Boddingtons Bitter (Boddies), a straw-golden, hoppy bitter which was one of the first beers to be packaged in cans containing a widget, giving it a creamy draught -style head.
Henry Boddington delighted in innovation and progress. In 1877, the local and national press reported that his company had become the first business in Manchester to install a telephone link between two of its sites.
Henry Boddington fostered a spirit of innovation, exemplified by the brewery’s groundbreaking achievements. In 1877, Boddingtons made headlines as the first business in Manchester to install a telephone link between two of its sites.
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Jun 22, 2020 · Boddington’s became known as The Cream of Manchester in the 1980s, but to understand how it became such a huge part of the city’s history we need to go back to a time when people drank beer instead of water.
